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Superconductivity in infinite layer nickelates Nd1-xSrxNiO2 has so far been achieved only in thin films raising questions on the role of substrates and interfaces. Given the challenges associated with their synthesis it is imperative to…

The recent discovery of superconductivity with a transition temperature $T_c$ over 40 K in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ and (La,Pr)$_{3}$Ni$_2$O$_7$ thin films at ambient pressure marks an important step in the field of nickelate superconductors.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-10 Wenyuan Qiu , Zhihui Luo , Xunwu Hu , Dao-Xin Yao

We report on the observation of a Tc ~0.9 K superconductivity at the interface between LaAlO3 film and the 5d transition-metal oxide KTaO3(110) single crystal. The interface shows a large anisotropy of the upper critical field, and its…

The prediction of high $T_c$ superconductivity in layers of LaNiO$_3$ through orbital engineering has led to extensive research efforts over the last fifteen years. During this period, a plethora of thin films and heterostructures based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-10 J. Chakhalian , S. Middey

We investigate THz conductivity dynamics in NdNiO$_3$ and EuNiO$_3$ thin films following a photoinduced thermal quench into the metallic state and reveal a clear contrast between first- and second-order dynamics. While in EuNiO$_3$ the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-22 Elsa Abreu , Derek Meyers , Verner K. Thorsmolle , Jingdi Zhang , Xiaoran Liu , Kun Geng , Jak Chakhalian , Richard D. Averitt

We study the electronic structure and doping-dependent instabilities of strained La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ thin films using first-principles and functional renormalization group methods. We demonstrate that ordering tendencies are governed by Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-23 Congcong Le , Jun Zhan , Xianxin Wu , Jiangping Hu

The epitaxial stabilization of a single layer or superlattice structures composed of complex oxide materials on polar (111) surfaces is severely burdened by reconstructions at the interface, that commonly arise to neutralize the polarity.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Middey , D. Meyers , M. Kareev , E. J. Moon , B. A. Gray , X. Liu , J. W. Freeland , J. Chakhalian

The recent discovery of superconductivity in Sr-doped NdNiO$_2$, with a critical temperature of $10-15$ K suggests the possibility of a new family of nickel-based high-temperature superconductors (HTS). NdNiO$_{2}$ is the $n=\infty$ member…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-15 Harrison LaBollita , Antia S. Botana

The discovery of high-$T_c$ superconductivity in Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates has sparked substantial effort towards understanding unconventional electronic states beyond a traditional cuprate-like d^9 configurational ground state. An…

The emerging Ni-based superconducting oxide thin films are rather intriguing to the entire condensed matter physics. Here we report some brief experimental results on transport measurements for a 14-nm-thick superconducting…

The recent discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates generates tremendous research endeavors, but the ground state of their parent compounds is still under debate. Here, we report experimental evidences for the dominant…

The discovery of interface-enhanced superconductivity in single-layer FeSe/oxides has generated intensive research interests. Beyond the family of FeSe interfaced with various TiO$_2$ terminated oxides, high pairing temperature up to 80~K…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-17 Chihao Li , Yuanhe Song , Xiaoxiao Wang , Minyinan Lei , Xiaoyang Chen , Haichao Xu , Rui Peng , Donglai Feng

Heteroepitaxial growth of transition-metal oxide films on the open (111) surface of SrTiO3 results in significant restructuring due to the polar mismatch. Monitoring the structural and composition on an atomic scale of LaNiO3/SrTiO3 (111)…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-26 Mohammad Saghayezhian , Zhen Wang , Hangwen Guo , Yimei Zhu , E. W. Plummer , Jiandi Zhang

The discovery of ambient-pressure nickelate high-temperature superconductivity provides a new platform for probing the underlying superconducting mechanisms. However, the thermodynamic metastability of Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-05 Wei Lv , Zihao Nie , Heng Wang , Haoliang Huang , Guangdi Zhou , Qikun Xue , Zhuoyu Chen

Nickelate films have recently attracted broad attention due to the observation of superconductivity in the infinite layer phase of $Nd_{0.8}Sr_{0.2}NiO_2$ (obtained by reducing Sr doped $NdNiO_3$ films) and their similarity to the cuprates…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-15 Gad Koren , Anna Eyal , Leonid Iomin , Yuval Nitzav

The discovery of nickelate superconductivity provided the first example of a non-copper-based material with superconductivity strongly analogous to the cuprates, but recent findings raise questions and inconsistencies around the electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-05 Y. N. Huang , D. J. Singh

The superconducting infinite-layer nickelate family has risen as a promising platform for revealing the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. However, its challenging material synthesis has obscured effort in understanding the…

The perovskite SrTiO$_3$-LaAlO$_3$ structure has advanced to a model system to investigate the rich electronic phenomena arising at polar interfaces. Using first principles calculations and transport measurements we demonstrate that an…

We demonstrate in this paper that the recently discovered infinite-layer (IL) nickelates have much in common with a class of materials known as electrides. Oxide based electrides are compounds in which topotactic removal of loosely bound…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-30 Kateryna Foyevtsova , Ilya Elfimov , George A. Sawatzky

The recent discovery of high temperature superconductivity in nickelate systems has generated tremendous interests in the field of superconductivity. The core issue to understand the superconductivity mechanism is about the superconducting…